Women who are just a little bossy

I wonder what men like Paul Thompson try to get out of writing such a misogynist article.

I agree with everything you wrote, and almost broke a rib while laughing about the 40% comment on the Queen Bee syndrome. I do have one criticism though: how about giving some Real Life examples of women in charge instead of sticking to women playing the roll of someone in charge? 

How about Ursula Burns, the first female African-American to lead a Fortune 500 company? Or Susan Arnold, head of Procter & Gamble? Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and, might I add, doing one hell of a job?  Cynthia Carroll, head of Anglo American PLC? Oprah Winfrey? Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo? The list is endless..

(of course, none of them are quite as goodlooking as Dean Porter ;) ) 

Miranda Bailey = Best. Boss. Ever. 

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Joanne from Rent.

I actually have to halfway agree with Paulie boy on one thing, and that's the pantsuit. Let's face it, it's just more fun to see the girl beat the boy when she's wearing a skirt and high heels. I love that kind of irony.

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hmmmm....how interesting. The paragraph regarding how women can't control their emotions is conspicuously shorter. When I initially read it, there was a wonderful gem comparing Bhutto to the Dalai Lama and how because Bhutto couldn't control her emotions and insisted on returning to her homeland, she was in essence asking to get herself killed.

How....charming. 

And people wonder why feminism still exists.

The fact that Dean Porter actually slept with her TA makes her, in my humble opinion, the best boss ever. I'd work under her anyday.

 ~Lolita

"But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever."

Dear Paul,

You see. For centuries,  we have been relegated to being just housewives or nuns.

We haven´t really been  in charge of anything. This is all new to us.

So please forgive us if you do not think that we are doing a great job.

But do you know something? I think we are doing ok, great in fact (considering how

new all this is to us as I said  before).

We are learning very fast and you see, some of us  are working in a mens world and 

that´s kind of scary. We have to adjust ourselves to your rules and laws.

 But do not worry, we will be perfectly well in a few decades or even less, a few years

maybe.

Most of the bullying and bitchiness among us women will go away because we will be 

used to be in a business world. A place that won´t be new to us anymore.

I guess that it might be cool just to be there all the time and not having anybody 

looking over your shoulder, questioning and judging you. Cheers Paulie

I admit that I chuckle when people from many of the sites I've seen about that reference the article ask as to why the site keeps Paul around.  I would like to ask them all as to how many people visited the site to read the article?  As jamie murnane here has pointed out, the article has been making it's rounds.  The more people hear about the article, more check out the site.  The more people check out the site, the more money AskMen.com makes from it's sponsors.  Ergo, WE are the reason Paul continues to be employed.  

Don't you just love to hate underhanded business practices? 

Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) on CSI. yes, she was only recently promoted as supervisor of the Graveshift, but face it - she was still the boss even when Grissom was in charge.

Captain Kate McCafferty (Bonnie Bedelia) on The Division. 

Dr Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) on ER. She was always queen bee of the ER, IMO. 

This article has to be satire. I really think it is.

Reading the comments posted under the original article makes me happy though.

It seems as if nobody agrees with the author! Maybe that was the whole point of the article?

Whenever talk about female bosses, I think about TLW's Bette and Hospital Central's Maca. They are both gay, gorgeous, tough and control freaks.

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"The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty."

Unfortunately this is somewhat typical of the male reaction to women in the workplace. Having said that, I am lucky enough to work with many wonderful men who are pro-women, pro-gay, liberal in almost every sense and are great examples of the male of the species!

I have though, in other jobs, gotten the 'you're over reacting, you're female and irrational' stuff from people. Usually this has been because I've shown them up, made them look a bit stupid or uncovered their mistakes. The immediate response of these sort of guys was to try to make me look stupid in order to distract from their own failings.

Sure, business was built by men, for men. So were most things in this world, and women have very rapidly within one century moved into that sphere.

I am in an engineering job, in a small company with 8 engineers. How many are women? 4. Amazing! In 2009, this is a great point to be at. (Having said that though, it's an industrial research company, and women are more common in the academic industry!)

Gin your talking my language!

If women were doing a shitty job (which we aren't), it might be because it's a "man's world" or whatever bullshit was written in this actual article.  So, thanks for proving our point for us.

My boss, an African-American woman, is my inspiration.

Hot. Bossy. Damn good at her job. Closeted lesbian (I'm convinced).

But not even the lovely Felicity Huffman can compete with Bette's pant suits.

now i havent read the whole article and it does sound like said writer has made some stupid arguments and soundbites to get publicity for the site he works for but I think it would do women well to not just dismiss out of hand certain things.I think another response further up sums it up for me, women do not yet make great bosses because we havent been bosses for as long as men have, that doesn't mean we won't just that we aren't yet. Having had a mixture of female and male bosses I know the pro's and cons of each and I would say they were about equal but the problem is that things men get away with as bosses women don't for example my first reaction to bette porter being put forward as a good boss was nah no way, she's emotional, belittling, she has sex with someone she really shouldnt in her place of work etc and then i realised men can be just as bad and yet we forgive it and somewhat expect it of men to be such a way whereas women have to be whiter than white or they are seen as a failure as a boss. There is 1 thing I would like to point out that I have noticed about my female bosses though that they all seem to try too hard, men seem more relaxed in power, female bosses tend to make enemies of staff because they feel like they have to be on your case all the time or things will slack because you don't respect them as much whereas men seem to believe in their divine right to rule and so don't have to try so hard, like it comes naturally to them, I think this may again be due to the fact that women haven't wielded power for so long. My last point is that britain had the worst example of a female boss in margaret thatcher and the country has still not recovered, so for me I am still reluctant to believe that women in britain are on a par with men when it comes to being bosses but i do believe they are catching up I am unsure about the rest of the world.

~sarah

In my last positions, men and women co-workers were bullies and unbearable, but I have found that women colleagues made hostilities 1000000x worse than the men.  Whereas male colleagues/superiors made my job annoying, women colleagues/superiors induced me to quit - not only did they make my everyday life threatening, they would also peck at my own insecurities.  Women, I have found, are way more incisive and vicious then men when they want to "bring somebody down."  As a result, I have thrived under male supervisors and crumbled under female ones.  

In MY view and based on MY experiences, when women are threatened, they do everything to CHANGE you.  When men are threatened, they take you out to coffee to figure out if you truly are a threat or not.

At the risk of being incredibly unpopular, I will have to agree with this article and affirm it's not entirely mysoginistic.  :( 

...Oh, and I should add that in all of my previous 3 jobs, I worked at VERY "Corporate America"  companies.  Not to perpetrate the stereotype further, but I think women who work in NGOs/non-profits/non-Corporate America are more professional/less emotional.  I don't think this is anti-woman, but rather a call to look at how we're socialized.  Corporate America was built by men for men (the creatures w/ only one "X" chromosome, the one that allows complex emotional reasoning), so women are unfairly left out of this game.  As a result, I have found that the women I've interacted with can't really handle it because we don't understand its unspoken intricacies.  (In my view, a lot of human interactions in Corporate America are unspoken.)

Anyway, it's a debate that deserves more merit and sociological methodology than a mere BS essay put together that sounds more like a venting letter to a buddy than something to be taken seriously by the mainstream.   

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

i loved the article. it was spot-on, i felt. but, i'm pretty sure the designer Ellen is wearing is Zac Posen not Zoc lol.

Unless she's going out in knock-offs these days (damn this recession!)

Isn't that why we don't "ask men"? 

Men who think like this should be fired from whatever position they hold. You don't want this so obviously misogynistic infection to spread, do you?

love and lust make fools of us all, but where would we be without them?

I do remember trying to sabotage Jodi during a meeting s4 because she wasn't happy about Jodi seeing other people. So hmm yeah the whole not holding a grudge part is def. not Bette's forte.

*partir en premier ne veut pas toujours dire arriver en premier*

I've only worked for a female boss for like 2-3 days but I liked her. I wish I could work for a female boss.I'm in architecture field so it is nearly impossible to find female bosses :( It is a field still highly dominated by men. I'm really tired of working for men because they simply can't communicate! They can't express what they really expect out of me and when it comes to laying people off they suck. When something goes wrong they just drop off the face of the earth and don't return your phone calls.Cowards..Men can be more ambitious but females at least can communicate verbally and I think it is the most important thing for a business to be successful!

"I believe that I will be with one person for the rest of my life, but that person will be a woman." Luce-Imagine Me&You